Entries by Casey Gane-McCalla

Before marijuana was legalized in Colorado and Washington, I had written and recorded a song with my band, Knight Blade, called "I Got That Weed." The goal of the song was not to glamorize or promote marijuana, but to make it socially acceptable, and help with the legalization efforts. Hopefully...

In a real world, Superheroes would have the same vices and corruptibility that humans have. This video explores a world in where Superheroes take drugs and are corrupted and the line between good and evil is not as clear as it is in comic books.

Today is Martin Luther King's birthday. Today a horrific tragedy is going on in Haiti. While some men of the cloth are using the incident to spread their twisted world views, Martin surely would've used the occasion to spread wisdom...

5 years ago Americans stood in amazement as they witnessed their fellow citizens struggle through a natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina was a wake up call for the USA. After Katrina we could no longer hide and ignore the poor people of our country. We were forced to see the disastrous...

Sarah Palin has a new book. In the book she ignores the fact that for a good deal of her political career, she was a member of or closely affiliated with a radical secessionist Alaskan political party known as the...

After the recent Fort Hood shootings, right wing pundits are calling for Muslims in the military to be investigated and in some cases barred from the military. While we're at it we should investigate right wing white extremists too, as they cause a threat to our country.

The right wing is launching an attack on ACORN. Not because ACORN is a corrupt or a negative organization, but because ACORN stands for things that they oppose. ACORN involves itself in issues such as making housing affordable for working class people, living wages for poor and working class people,...

Last Friday was the 8th anniversary of 9/11. The previous week was the 4th anniversary of Katrina. While the media covered a lot of the 9/11 memorials, concerts and memories, it seemed as if the legacy of Katrina got very little attention. Both events have had a great impact on...

Years ago, the answer to this question would be the n-word. Today it's Esquire, Doctor, Congressman, Professor or President. Unfortunately, the police in Cambridge did not receive that memo before they arrested Harvard Professor, Skip Gates, as he was treated as...

Peace out Sarah. We knew you all too well. Pretty sure you're about to investigated as well you should have. Here's a video I did before the election on how Sarah Palin would be if she were black. Would she have received all the right wing praise from Limbaugh and...

While Dick Cheney's endorsement of Rush Limbaugh might carry the weight of any other supervillain's endorsement, it is still significant. When Dick Cheney, still one of the most recognizable faces of the Republican Party, chose Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell, he chose racism over service to your country,...

I didn't know that Presidents could fire CEOs but seeing how as the government is giving companies billions of dollars to companies, business leaders should be held accountable. Obama pressured GM CEO, Rick Wagoner to step down; here are five other CEOs he should consider firing.